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Sword Swing

A blade slicing through the air: thin whistling whoosh with a fast Doppler sweep and a metallic edge

kind
one-shot
length
0.41 s
downloads
0
id
39V18TB8QR

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Preset
Spectrogram of “Sword Swing”, default preset
Spectrogram of “Sword Swing”, default preset: time left to right, frequency bottom to top.
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Tweak

renders in the CLI · WAV

Change parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.

Command
$ sb get 39V18TB8QR@1 -o sword-swing.wav

How it's made

Source
a thin blade moving at 20–30 m/s sheds turbulence from its edge: broadband air noise (pink, high-passed at 250 Hz). A sharp trailing edge also sheds vortices at a regular rate, a thin whistle around 2.5–5 kHz.
Body
no solid rings, the air is shaped by the pass. A band-pass (Q ≈ 1.4) rises fast to 3–6 kHz as the blade approaches and falls away after it passes (Doppler-like brightness). The whistle is a narrow resonator (Q ≈ 40) plus a sine that follow the same curve with a slight downward Doppler bend. A faint metallic edge comes from inharmonic metal-bar modes (≈ 1 : 2.76 : 5.4 : 8.9) at 3–7 kHz excited by a bright noise burst.
Envelope
the level swells over ≈ 55 % of the length to the pass-by peak, then drops quickly (≈ 40 %). The whistle peaks slightly after the air; the metallic shimmer is a short burst around the peak.
Variation
`rng` shifts the peak time by a few percent and tunes the whistle and modes by ±3 %; the travel parameter pans the pass-by across the stereo field. Presets change speed, edge, whistle and direction.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
length0.2 – 0.90.3sLength
brightness0 – 10.6—Brightness
whistle0 – 10.5—Whistle
edge0 – 10.4—Metal edge
travel-1 – 10.6—Negative values travel right to left
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('39V18TB8QR@1')

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